Spinning-machine



PafentedFeb lT, 1880.

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METERS. PHOT0-LITNOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON 0 C4 tion, showing the swingingarm in position To all whom it may concern:

vented certain new and useful Improvements,

hinged (lisk, a with a screw loosely passing UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

SPlNNlNG- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,700, dated February17, 1880.

Application filed Be it known that we, SAMUEL KEISLING and THOMAS N.BABB, of Monroe, in the county of ()verton and State of Tennessee, haveinin Spinning-Machines; and we do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawin gs, and to lettersof reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to an improvement in hand-spinning machines.

It consists in a new and novel arrangement for drawing out the threadand spinning and winding it, as will more fully hereinafter be setforth.

in the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevawhen the thread is drawn out tobe spun. Fig. 2 is a detail view, showing thestaff with itsextension-bar for adjusting my device to rooms of difi'erent heights.Fig. 3 is a front elevation with the swinging arm drawn in positionafter winding thethread just spun and before drawing out additionalthread.

A is a vertical stalt or support, to which the working mechanism of ourdevice isattached. It is provided on its rear upper side with a bar, a,having a vertical slot, at, and attached by set-screws through the slot,so that it may be moved vertically in either direction and reset toaccommodate the staff to a room of any height.

Upon the upper end of the slotted bar is a through its center, to befastened in the ceiling or other suitable place and act as aswivel forthe staff A to turn on, that it may be accommo dated to any desiredposition. The hinge allows the stafl to be raised to the ceiling, whereit may be secured out of the way when not in use.

.At the lower end of the stafi A is aflixed a foot-piece extending toone side, andhaving an upward-projecting end so arranged as to receiveand pivot a treadle, a, between it and the bar or staff A. The staff Ais also provided on its treadle side with an arm, a

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bowed downward,=and having a hole orbearing in its end corresponding toone in the staff A, to receive a pin or axle.

B is aswinging arm having a large and small bifurcated end, and providedeach with holes or bearings through the ends of their arms to receive apin or axle. The large end is pivoted or swung upon a pin through thebearings in the wheel-frame a and has alarge and small pulley joinedtogether on the same pin or axle between its arms, and made to operateindependent of it. In the other and loose end isa small pulley, b heldto its place by a long needle or pin passing through it and the bearingsof the arm, and acting as a combined axle and thread-spindle bIntermediate the arm a and the treadle a is a crank-pulley, b pivoted tothe staff A on its treadle side and made to operate so that a bandpassing around it and the small pulley I) will turn the larger pulley b,and .a band passing around it (the pulley b) and the small pulley 12causes the latterto revolve rapidly.

b is a curved pitman connecting the inner end of the treadle a, at b, tothe outside of the inner arm of the pivoted end of the bifurcatedswinging arm B at and made to operate so that pressing the foot upon theouter end of the treadle a will vertically raise the pitman, which, inturn, elevates the swin ing arm B to a horizontal position ready forspinning, as is shown in Fig. 1.

What we claim is- The combination, with the spindle l)", provided with apulley, b and fixed in the free "end of the arm B, and the swinging armB,

hinged on a pin or axle, b near the upper end. of the staff A, of thestaff A, pulleys b b, journaletl on axle b ,'crank-wheel b pitman b,with its treadle a, and the necessary cords or belts for driving thepulleys, all arranged to operate substantially as and for the purposesset forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we affix oursignatures in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL KEISLlNG.

THOMAS N. BABB. Witnesses:

R. H. SMITH, R. S. Bears.

